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Money Doesn’t Talk. Why Most Startups Aren’t Announcing Their Seed Financings

Hunter Walker

Not because they’re all operating in stealth or pre-product – in fact some already are earning $1m+ in revenue per annum. Hiring Has Changed: Before the press was a way of generating interest for hiring. Most of the startups we’ve backed at Homebrew don’t rush to announce their funding.

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The Entrepreneur’s Essentials #10: The most proven way to hire well

Austin Startup

It is all about how you hire the best and the amazing impact doing so will have on your culture. You must test those that you want to hire. I didn’t know better at the time and they were much older and “experienced” than I was, so I let them run with that plan. But they were wrong 50% of the time, six months later.

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Reincubate: Blog: Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate)

www.reincubate.com

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Chief Technology Officer job description (for web, start-up or corporate) « Upgraded your iPhone to OS 3 but files are missing? Some companies look for a more strategic or a more hands-on CTO. Firstly, theres no one-size-fits-all description.

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Marketing Your Startup: A Billion-Dollar Company’s First Marketer Reflects Back

View from Seed

Ellie Mirman was the first marketer hired by the CMO of HubSpot, the Boston-based marketing software startup that IPOed in 2014. Initially, we promoted it to a list that we’d already developed through Website Grader, the free app our CTO Dharmesh Shah had built before we even had a product. How did you address that?

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10 Startup Red Flags

adamac.blogspot.com

Ever met a CTO/VP Engineering or CEO/CTO? If youre highly technical and drive the technology vision of the company, people will get it without you tacking on the CTO title. It follows that an "idea guy" who "just needs to hire a few engineers" probably isnt running a tech startup. Yeah me neither.

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Which language should my startup use?

www.reincubate.com

Email us or call +44 (0) 844 3579899 home about services blog labs Which language should my startup use? Hiring a good team of PHP developers is neither likely nor easy for the non-technical. « Launch48 last weekend Posted by Aidan, 20 th January 2010.

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Startup Lessons for the Proto-Founder

www.metamorphblog.com

While I’m still mostly a clueless hack, there are a few things I learned along the way that I think founders and proto-founders reading this blog might find useful. We hired three guys from that batch and paid them in iPhones. Treat everyone you hire like a co-founder. “Stealth Mode&# = FAIL.

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